Google's answer to Wikipedia is now live.
Google Knol emerged from its seven-month closed beta Wednesday, and is now open for people looking to share their expertise on everything from type 1 diabetes to how to backpack.
“With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call 'moderated collaboration,'" Cedric Dupont, a Google product manager, and Michael McNally, a Google software engineer, wrote in a blog post. “With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public."
Knol, short for “knowledge," is essentially a cross between Wikipedia and About.com.
“The key principle behind Knol is authorship," wrote Dupont and McNally. “Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion."
Google Knol emerged from its seven-month closed beta Wednesday, and is now open for people looking to share their expertise on everything from type 1 diabetes to how to backpack.
“With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call 'moderated collaboration,'" Cedric Dupont, a Google product manager, and Michael McNally, a Google software engineer, wrote in a blog post. “With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public."
Knol, short for “knowledge," is essentially a cross between Wikipedia and About.com.
“The key principle behind Knol is authorship," wrote Dupont and McNally. “Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion."
